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Local surgeon Dr. Alan Koslow recently joined
Team Rubicon to evaluate and organize a newly
formed refugee camp in Sudan, Africa, where
a humanitarian disaster of almost unprecedented
proportions began to occur a month ago. A new
refugee camp has sprung up with 30,000 refugees
and 1,000 more refugees added daily at a camp
with no sanitation, shelter, safe water, food
or medical care. Team Rubicon, an organization
of veterans dedicated to international and national
disaster relief, is organizing the mission at
the request of International Medical Corps (IMC).
The goal of the team will be to evaluate the
situation and plan the response to this humanitarian
disaster. There will be sanitation, housing
water, food and medical experts on the team.
Dr. Koslow will be responsible for evaluating
the actual and potential medical problems and
what will be needed to treat and prevent them.
The team will return July 15, 2012. Good luck.

Bus riders in Greater Des Moines were able
to pay their bus fares with donations of nonperishable
food items last Friday for the one-day “Food
Ride” offered by the Des Moines Area Regional
Transit Authority in support of the Yankee Doodle
Drive Against Hunger. The food was donated to
the Food Bank of Iowa. Donations of nonperishable
food items were accepted in lieu of fares on
DART’s fixed-route, On Call, Flex and Paratransit
services. Donations will also be accepted at
DART’s office at 1100 DART Way, Des Moines.
Food must be nonperishable, in its original
packaging, and packaged in a can, plastic or
box. (No glass containers.)

The bad

People seem to have little respect for their
elders today. Kentucky resident Crystal Davis,
27, was arrested last week after she beat her
mother up because she wouldn’t give her any
money or prescription medication. According
to officials, Davis allegedly punched her mom
in the face, pushed her into a bathroom and
locked the door. Davis’ mother eventually gave
her 40 Tylenol 3 pills and $50, and Davis fled
the scene. She was arrested a short time later
and charged with first-degree robbery and second-degree
unlawful imprisonment.

Figures released by Iowa Workforce Development
show 3,300 lost jobs in May, according to a
recent report by Progress Iowa, which stated
“Gov. Branstad is not doing enough to help middle
class Iowans seeking work.” The recent report
comes at “no surprise” to Progress Iowa Executive
Director Matt Sinovic, “given Gov. Branstad’s
long track record of ignoring the needs of middle-class
Iowans,” Sinovic said. “The Governor may try
to fool us with fuzzy math and half-hearted
initiatives, but we know his true record: slashing
education funding, making sure poor Iowans pay
higher taxes by vetoing the Earned Income Tax
Credit and shutting down workforce development
centers, making it harder for the unemployed
to find jobs,” he continued. “If the Governor
continues to turn his back on the middle class,
he will never be able to keep his promise to
create 200,000 new jobs.” A politician failing
to keep his promise? No way.

The ugly

It’s hard out there for a pimp, but it’s even
harder for the unwilling prostitute. Ohio police
arrested Jacqueline Toro-Williams, 37, last
week after discovering she had pimped her young
daughter out for years. According to police,
Toro-Williams offered her daughter several times
a day to numerous men beginning when the girl
was 11. The daughter, who is now 16 and pregnant
with her third child, told police that her mother
drove her around to different homes and apartment
complexes and forced her to have sex with men
for drugs and money. After an investigation,
Toro-Williams was arrested and charged with
compelling prostitution and promoting prostitution.
The girl now lives with a foster family in Ohio.

Every day is hump day for this pervert. Charles
Marshall, 28, was arrested last week in Cincinnati,
Ohio, after he was caught having sex with a
teddy bear in a public place. According to police,
Marshall was arrested after witnesses saw him
masturbating with a teddy bear in an alley.
Upon arrival, officers found Marshall, who was
still masturbating. This is the fourth time
Marshall has been arrested on similar charges,
and in 2010 he was ordered to stay away from
all public libraries in Hamilton County. Marshall
was charged with engaging in public indecency
and disorderly conduct. CV